Man seriously hurt after stabbing and car theft

A 23-year-old man was seriously wounded during a robbery and stabbing early Thursday in Oxnard, police said.

The man was parking his truck in the 900 block of Cedar Court about 1:30 a.m. when two men approached, stabbed him several times in the upper body and took his truck, Oxnard police Sgt. Tim Kelley said. The assailants then drove around the block and crashed into a chain-link fence, abandoning the vehicle, Kelley said.

The stabbing victim, an Oxnard resident whose name was not released, was taken to St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard, Kelley said. His injuries were serious, but he was expected to survive.

The two assailants had not been arrested as of Thursday. Police asked anyone with information about the incident to call Detective Ken Peeples at 486-6297.